{"id":56512,"date":"2025-11-19T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/56512\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:53:14","slug":"universal-city-approves-update-to-comprehensive-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/56512\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal City approves update to comprehensive plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal City City Council unanimously approved an update to its Vision 35 Comprehensive Plan on <a href=\"https:\/\/universalcitytx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/44\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nov. 18<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update replaces the city\u2019s 2018-2022 Comprehensive Plan, according to the meeting presentation.<\/p>\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive plan is a long-range planning document city leaders can use as a tool to make decisions that will impact the whole community, according to the presentation.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/universalcitytexas.gov\/1416\/Final-2025-Vision-35-Comprehensive-Plan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vision 35 Comprehensive Plan<\/a> update is comprised of three primary components:<\/p>\n<p>Future Land Use MapGoals and policiesImplementation planRegarding land use, the community showed strong support for mixed-use redevelopment, and voiced a need for senior and workforce housing options. Public feedback also indicated a desire to revitalize Pat Booker Road, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universalcitytexas.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/8663\/Vision-35-Comprehensive-Plan?bidId=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">agenda documents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With transportation, the community expressed concerns with traffic congestion on Pat Booker Road, and supported intersection and signal upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>The Universal City community also expressed a need to diversify businesses to attract higher-wage jobs and strategically redevelop underutilized areas. Water and wastewater system reliability was also identified as a top priority. The community also showed an interest in a dedicated senior center\/multipurpose indoor community center, according to agenda documents.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of note<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a Bible; this is a plan that is designed by the citizens of Universal City that we\u2019re going to be using to move forward with,\u201d Mayor Tom Maxwell said.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing<\/p>\n<p>The council also directed city staff to facilitate a council workshop to prioritize short-, mid- and long-term implementation actions.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal City City Council unanimously approved an update to its Vision 35 Comprehensive Plan on Nov. 18. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4519,30724,5692,362,30725,82,84,83,365],"class_list":["post-56512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-city-council","tag-comprehensive-plan","tag-local-government","tag-northeast-san-antonio","tag-northeast-san-antonio-metrocom","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-universal-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}